YA romances
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FROM: Penny Ramirez <[removed]@SLS.LIB.IL.US>
REC'D: 1/8/04, 10:40 AM
Our YA librarian would like to do a display of YA romances for Valentine's Day -
but she and I are both completely stumped to come up with romances that fall
into the traditional "romance with a happy ending" category. Everything we can
think of has tragic deaths involved somehow (such as Lurlene McDaniels' books).
Anyone have any ideas? We're hoping for fairly recent works, as opposed to
classics. Thanks!
Penny Ramirez
Reference Librarian
Melrose Park (IL) Public Library
www.melroseparklibrary.org
FROM: Lynne Welch <[removed]@oplin.org>
REC'D: 1/8/04, 11:31 AM
At 11:24 AM 1/8/2004, you wrote:
>Greetings, collective wisdom! I'm hoping the vast experience of the list can
>help us with our query:
>
>Our YA librarian would like to do a display of YA romances for Valentine's
>Day -
> but she and I are both completely stumped to come up with romances that
> fall
>into the traditional "romance with a happy ending" category. Everything we
>can
>think of has tragic deaths involved somehow (such as Lurlene McDaniels'
>books).
>
>Anyone have any ideas? We're hoping for fairly recent works, as opposed to
>classics. Thanks!
>
>Penny Ramirez
>Reference Librarian
>Melrose Park (IL) Public Library
>www.melroseparklibrary.org
>
>......................................................................
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FROM: Katie Dunneback <[removed]@dunneback.com>
REC'D: 1/8/04, 12:39 PM
I know that Meg Cabot wrote one, historical I think, for the new Avon line.
Dorchester has also started a new line called Smooch for YAs, though since they
are so new, I'm not sure how many libraries might be aware of them and
therefore have some in the collection.
--
Katie Dunneback
The Young Librarian
http://www.younglibrarian.net
FROM: "Sandra Lang" <[removed]@oplin.org>
REC'D: 1/8/04, 1:07 PM
Avon put out a series for YA call True Romance in 2002 and 2003. They are
historical romances. There are about twelve in the series. Meg Cabot wrote
_Nichola and the Viscount_. They are all "sweet romances". They were YA
romances written by some of their best romance writers. You could include
Princess Diaries. The romance with Michael fits.
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From: "Penny Ramirez" <[removed]@SLS.LIB.IL.US>
To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 11:24 AM
Subject: YA romances
> Greetings, collective wisdom! I'm hoping the vast experience of the list
can
> help us with our query:
>
> Our YA librarian would like to do a display of YA romances for Valentine's
Day -
> but she and I are both completely stumped to come up with romances that
fall
> into the traditional "romance with a happy ending" category. Everything we
can
> think of has tragic deaths involved somehow (such as Lurlene McDaniels'
books).
>
> Anyone have any ideas? We're hoping for fairly recent works, as opposed to
> classics. Thanks!
>
> Penny Ramirez
> Reference Librarian
> Melrose Park (IL) Public Library
> www.melroseparklibrary.org
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
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FROM: "Lisa Olsen" <[removed]@cumberland.lib.nc.us>
REC'D: 1/8/04, 2:50 PM
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From: [removed]@maillist.webrary.org [[removed]@maillist.webrary.org]
On Behalf Of Penny Ramirez
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 11:24 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: YA romances
Greetings, collective wisdom! I'm hoping the vast experience of the list can
help us with our query:
Our YA librarian would like to do a display of YA romances for Valentine's
Day -
but she and I are both completely stumped to come up with romances that
fall
into the traditional "romance with a happy ending" category. Everything we
can
think of has tragic deaths involved somehow (such as Lurlene McDaniels'
books).
Anyone have any ideas? We're hoping for fairly recent works, as opposed to
classics. Thanks!
Penny Ramirez
Reference Librarian
Melrose Park (IL) Public Library
www.melroseparklibrary.org
FROM: "Jesse Lewis" <[removed]@pbclibrary.org>
REC'D: 1/8/04, 3:07 PM
Good luck,
Jesse Lewis
Main Library Youth Services Dept.
Palm Beach County Library System
"Our YA librarian would like to do a display of YA romances for Valentine's Day -
but she and I are both completely stumped to come up with romances that fall
into the traditional "romance with a happy ending" category. Everything we can
think of has tragic deaths involved somehow (such as Lurlene McDaniels' books)."
FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 1/9/04, 9:04 AM
Caroyn Aarsen's Love Inspired series
Rosalyn Alsobrook's Seascape series
Anne Avery's Love Spell series
Susan Alworth's Rainbow Rock series
June Masters Bacher's Heartland Heritage and Pioneer Romance (three separate
sequences) series (Christian)
Any of Judy Baer (Christian)
Suzanne Barclay's Somerville Brothers series
Jill Barnett's Medieval Trilogy
Victoria Barrett's Seascape series
Pamela Belle's St. Barbe/Silence series
Carrie Bender's Miriam's Journal (Christian) series
Lisa Tawn Bergren's Christian Romance and Northern Lights series
Jo Beverley's Company of Rogues, Malloren, and Renfrew/Kyle series
Rosanne F. Bittner's Blue Hak, The Bride, Mystic Indian, and Savage Destiny
series
Lawanna Blackwell's Gresham Chronicles and Victorian Serenade series
(Christian)
Cindy Bonner's McDade County, TX, series
Mary C. Borntrager's Ellie's People (Christian)
Aleta Bourdaux's Atoinette Charbonneau series (Christian)
Charlotte Boyett-Compo's Windlegend series
Stella Cameron's Abby/Nick and Rossmara series
Carla Cassidy's Cheyenne Nights series
Linda Chaikin's Buccaneers, The Great Northwest, Heart of India, Jewel of
the Pacific, and The Royal Pavilions series (Christian)
Marion Chesney: almost any of her Regencies
Judy Christenberry's Lucky Charm Sisters series
Catherine Coulter: most of her romances
Neva Coyle's Summer Wind series (Christian)
Millie Criswell's Flowers of the West and The Lawmen series
Donna Fletcher Crow's Cambridge Chronicles, Daughters of Courage, and
Virtuous Heart series (Christian)
Janet Dailey's Calder series
Pamela Dean's Secret Country Trilogy
Claire Delacroix's Bride Quest series
Jude Devereaux's James River, Peregrine Family, and Montgomery & Taggart
Clans series
Denise Domnig's Graistan Chronicles/Fitzhenry Series
Andrea Edwards's Great Expectations and This Time, Forever series
Cassie Edwards's very *long* (41v. at last count) Savage series
Jane Feather's Charm BraceletTrilogy
Susan Feldhake's Enduring Faith series (Christian)
Robert Funderburk's Innocent Years series (Christian)
Diana Gabaldon's Outlander books
Patricia Gaffney's Wyckerly series
Julie Garwood's Rose/Clayborne Family series
Robeta Gellis's Roselynde Chronicles (and perhaps her other Medieval novels
as well)
Cindy Gerard's Northern Lights Brides Trilogy
Nancy Gideon's Midnight (Vampire) series
Jo Goodman's Thorne Brothers series
Heather Graham's Civil War/Cameron Family, Old Florida, and
MacAuliffe/Viking series
Jean Grant's Salinas Valley Saga
Leigh Greenwood's Seven Brides series
Robin Jones Gunn's Sierra Jensen series (Christian)
Patricia Hagan's Coltrane Family Saga
Holly Harte's Texas Healing Women Trilogy
Virginia Henley: "The Falcon and the Flower," "The Dragon and the Jewel"
Ethel Herr's The Seekers series
Patricia Hickman's Land of the Far Horizons series
Deborah Hill's Merrick Family series
Jane Aiken Hodge: "Judas Flowering," "Wide is the Water"
B. J. Hoff's Dalton Saga (Christian)
Kay Hooper's Shadows Trilogy
Linda Howard's Wolf Mackenzie series
Janis Reams Hudson's Colton/Apache series
Brenda Joyce's Bragg Family and DeWarenne Sagas
Sherrilyn Kenyon's Love in Another Time series
Jane Kidder's Wellesley Brothers series
April Kihlstrom's Wescott series
Jane Kirkpatrick's Dreamcatchers series
Jayne Ann Krentz's Legends & Ladies series
Linda Francis Lee's Dove's Way/Saga of the Hawthorn Men
Anne Logston's Jaellyn and Shadows series
Cait London's Tallchief series
Elizabeth Lowell's Maxwell, Rockies/Only, and Western Lovers series
Sylvia J. McDaniel's The Burnett Brides series
May McGoldrick's Highland Treasure series
Debbie Macomber's Angels, From This Day Forward, Heart of Texas, Legendary
Lovers, Manning Brothers, Midnight Sons, Navy, and Orchard Valley series
Fern Michael's Coleman (Texas), Thornton (Las Vegas), and Van der Rhys
(Captive) Sagas
Linda Lael Miller's Springwater Seasons series
Janette Oke's Christian romances
Carole Gift Page's Heartland Memories series (Christian)
Jane Peart's Brides of Montclair, Orphan Train West, and Westward Dream
series (Christian)
Joan Elliott Pickart's Baby Bet and Family Men series
Mary Jo Putney's Silk Trilogy and Fallen Angels series
Dana Ransom's Kincaid/Prescott (Dakota) and Texas/Bass Family series
Nora Roberts's Donovan Legacy, Templeton Dream, Gallagher’s Pub/Fairy
King/Ardmore, Irish Sisters/Concannon Sisters, MacGregors, MacKade Brothers,
Night Tales, Stars of Mirtha, Stormswept/Brothers of Chesapeake Bay/Quinn
Brothers, and Those Wild Ukrainians (Stanislaskis) series
Evelyn Rogers's Chadwick Sisters series
Sharon Sala's Gambler's Daughters and Justice Way series
Valerie Sherwood's Carolina/Kells ser/Tales of the Silver Wench and Van
Ryker ser/Imogene & Georgiana Quartet series
Beatrice Small's Skye O'Malley series
Rosemary Stevens's Cats of Mayfair series
Marlene Suson's Midnight (Wingate/Parnell) Trilogy
Janelle Taylor's Lakota Winds series
Jodi Thomas's Texas series and Texas Brothers Trilogy
Patricia Veryan's The Golden Chronicle, The eague of the Jewelled Men, and
The Sanguinet Saga series
Rosalyn West's Men of Pride County series
Brenda Wilbee's Sweetbriar series
(If you need specific titles, I have lists: contact me privately and specify
which authors you want.)
Much of Alan & Gilbert Morris's Christian fiction might also fit. And many
of the Sweet Valley series have to do with teenage "love."
Then, of course, there's Charlotte and Emily Bronte; Jane Austen; Maeve
Binchy, Joanna Trollope, Helen Van Slyke, and Rosamunde Pilcher; Celeste
deBlasis's Swan series; R. D. Blackmore's "Lorna Doone;" Betty Smith's "Joy
in the Morning;" most of Catherine Cookson; Elswyth Thane; Angela Thirkell's
Barsetshire series; Eugenia Price; the "village" stories of Miss Read, D. E.
Stevenson, Barbara Pym, E. F. Benson, and Nancy Mitford; Jane Duncan; Dana
Fuller Ross; Belva Plain's sagas; Clare Darcy's Regencies; old "historical
romances" like S. R. Crockett, Richard Hewlett, Sir Gilbert Parker, Stanley
J. Weyman, F. Brett Young, Robert W. Chambers, Winston Churchill (the
American one), Mary Johnston, and Herbert Quick; Owen Wister's "The
Virginian" (a Western with a love story); Grace Livingston Hill, Faith
Baldwin, Elizabeth Cadell, Kathleen Norris, Emilie Loring, Eleanor H.Porter,
Gene Strtton Porter (not, to my knowledge, related), and Agnes Sligh
Turnbull (oldies, but good for "gentle" romance); any of the romantic
suspense of Victoria Holt, Mary Stewart, Phyllis A. Whitney, or Dorothy Eden
(ditto); Bess Streeter Aldrich, Catherine Marshall, Barbara Michaels, Gwen
Bristow, Catherine Gaskin, Elizabeth Goudge, Susan Howatch, Taylor Caldwell,
M. M. Kaye, and Mignon G. Eberhart's Civil War mystery-romances (ditto);
Philippa Carr's long series of historicals (ditto); "Gone With the Wind"
(despite the ambiguous ending); Georgette Heyer, and Barbara Cartland with
her ever-virtuous heroines.
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FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 1/9/04, 9:20 AM
>From: "Lisa Olsen" <[removed]@cumberland.lib.nc.us>
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: RE: YA romances
>Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2004 15:47:17 -0500
>
>I would recommend "Sorcery and Cecelia" by Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline
>Stevermer. It is a fantasy/regency romance.
>
Readers who enjoy it may also like Wrede's Mairelon the Magician duology;
her Enchanted Forest Chronicles; and Rosemary Edghill's Twelve Treasures
series:
1. The Sword of Maiden’s Tears (1994)
2. The Cup of Morning Shadows (1995)
3. The Cloak of Night and Daggers (1997)
(Available also as an omnibus volume from SFBC.)
You could also suggest Mercedes Lackey's retellings of fairy tales:
Elemental Mage series:
1. The Fire Rose (1994)
2. The Serpent’s Shadow (2001)
3. Gates of Sleep (2002)
Fairy Tale ser:
1. Firebird (1996)
2. The Black Swan (1999)
3. Phoenyx and Ashes (2003)
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FROM: "Robin Deffendall" <[removed]@cumberland.lib.nc.us>
REC'D: 1/9/04, 10:30 AM
Easily missed but highly recommended.
Robin Deffendall
Branch Manager
Bordeaux Branch Library
Cumberland County Public Library and Information Center
Fayetteville, NC
"The Very Best Place to Start for Learning and Discovery."
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From: [removed]@maillist.webrary.org [[removed]@maillist.webrary.org]
On Behalf Of Penny Ramirez
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 11:24 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: YA romances
Greetings, collective wisdom! I'm hoping the vast experience of the list can
help us with our query:
Our YA librarian would like to do a display of YA romances for Valentine's
Day - but she and I are both completely stumped to come up with romances
that fall
into the traditional "romance with a happy ending" category. Everything we
can
think of has tragic deaths involved somehow (such as Lurlene McDaniels'
books).
Anyone have any ideas? We're hoping for fairly recent works, as opposed to
classics. Thanks!
Penny Ramirez
Reference Librarian
Melrose Park (IL) Public Library
www.melroseparklibrary.org
FROM: Katie Moellering <[removed]@bham.lib.al.us>
REC'D: 1/9/04, 10:53 AM
Robin Deffendall wrote:
> A favorite of mine when I was a teen librarian was The Unlikely Romance of
> Kate Bjorkman by Pfeffer. Kate feels very un-romantic. She doesn't have a
> cool romance name like Fleur or Alyssa. She's awkward in that teenish way
> and she wears glasses (horrors!). When her brother brings home his hot, hot,
> hot roommate from college, Kate tries to be the person she reads about in
> those perfect romances. Of course it doesn't work out as she plans.....
>
> Easily missed but highly recommended.
>
> Robin Deffendall
> Branch Manager
> Bordeaux Branch Library
> Cumberland County Public Library and Information Center
> Fayetteville, NC
> "The Very Best Place to Start for Learning and Discovery."
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [removed]@maillist.webrary.org [[removed]@maillist.webrary.org]
> On Behalf Of Penny Ramirez
> Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 11:24 AM
> To: Fiction_L
> Subject: YA romances
>
> Greetings, collective wisdom! I'm hoping the vast experience of the list can
>
> help us with our query:
>
> Our YA librarian would like to do a display of YA romances for Valentine's
> Day - but she and I are both completely stumped to come up with romances
> that fall
> into the traditional "romance with a happy ending" category. Everything we
> can
> think of has tragic deaths involved somehow (such as Lurlene McDaniels'
> books).
>
> Anyone have any ideas? We're hoping for fairly recent works, as opposed to
> classics. Thanks!
>
> Penny Ramirez
> Reference Librarian
> Melrose Park (IL) Public Library
> www.melroseparklibrary.org
>
> ......................................................................
> Need to subscribe, unsubscribe, search the archives?
> Everything Fiction_L: http://fictionl.webrary.org
>
> ......................................................................
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FROM: "Robin Deffendall" <[removed]@cumberland.lib.nc.us>
REC'D: 1/12/04, 12:32 PM
Yes indeed, The unlikely Romance of Kate Bjorkman was indeed written by
Louise Plummer.
I think my mind had been hijacked. Hopefully it was temporary.
Robin Deffendall
Branch Manager
Bordeaux Branch Library
Cumberland County Public Library and Information Center
Fayetteville, NC
"The Very Best Place to Start for Learning and Discovery."
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From: Karen A.K. Keller [[removed]@brighton.lib.mi.us]
Sent: Friday, January 09, 2004 12:03 PM
To: Robin Deffendall
Subject: RE: YA romances
On Fri, 9 Jan 2004, Robin Deffendall wrote:
> A favorite of mine when I was a teen librarian was The Unlikely
> Romance of Kate Bjorkman by Pfeffer.
>
This sounded good but our catalog lists this book as authored by Louise
Plummer. Is there another title/author?
Karen Keller
Brighton (MI) District Library
FROM: "Lynn S. Smith-Roberts" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 1/13/04, 9:33 PM
Lynn S. Smith-Roberts
Librarian II
Carmichael Regional Library
Sacramento Public Library
[removed]@saclibrary.org
[removed]@hotmail.com
On Behalf Of Penny Ramirez
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2004 11:24 AM
To: Fiction_L
Subject: YA romances
Greetings, collective wisdom! I'm hoping the vast experience of the list can
help us with our query:
Our YA librarian would like to do a display of YA romances for Valentine's
Day -
but she and I are both completely stumped to come up with romances that
fall
into the traditional "romance with a happy ending" category. Everything we
can
think of has tragic deaths involved somehow (such as Lurlene McDaniels'
books).
Anyone have any ideas? We're hoping for fairly recent works, as opposed to
classics. Thanks!
Penny Ramirez
Reference Librarian
Melrose Park (IL) Public Library
www.melroseparklibrary.org
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FROM: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 1/14/04, 9:28 AM
>From: "Lynn S. Smith-Roberts" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: YA romances
>Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 03:31:27 +0000
>
>Our YA librarians put together several handouts for YA readers, including
>one for romances. For a SASE, I will send you -- Penny -- or anyone else,
>a copy.
>
That would be great, but where should we be sending the SASEs?
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FROM: "Lynn S. Smith-Roberts" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
REC'D: 1/22/04, 6:00 PM
Lynn S. Smith-Roberts
Carmichael Regional Library
5605 Marconi Avenue
Carmichael, CA 95608
Subject: RE: YA romances
From: "christine jeffords" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 15:25:37 +0000
>From: "Lynn S. Smith-Roberts" <[removed]@hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: "Fiction_L" <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>To: Fiction_L <[removed]@maillist.webrary.org>
>Subject: YA romances
>Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2004 03:31:27 +0000
>
>Our YA librarians put together several handouts for YA readers, including
>one for romances. For a SASE, I will send you -- Penny -- or anyone else,
>a copy.
>
That would be great, but where should we be sending the SASEs?
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